Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Call for Artists: BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities Nottingham (UK) 2013
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Nottingham (UK) 2013International Video-Art screening
Deadline: December 07, 2013International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short films to include in “BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities” international video art screening which will be held in Nottingham (UK), at Nottingham Playhouse, from the 13th to the 26th of January 2014.Entropy is conceptually defined as the measure of the level of disorder in a changing system. Starting from this fascinating concept, each person can be considered as a changing system, as the same as for a specific culture, city or country, until the whole universe. All these systems are subjected to a process of continuous inner evolution which overcome their own boundaries to contaminate and crossbreed each others. Borders of this evolving systems get more and more fleeting, and their identities turn out fluid, multiple and changeable. These continue changes find in the inevitability of evolution their measure of order.Nottingham Playhouse has been one of the United Kingdom’s leading producing theatres since its foundation in 1948. Touring work nationally and internationally, the Playhouse remains firmly rooted in its vibrant home city, where its spacious modernist building – fronted by Anish Kapoor’s “Sky Mirror” – is one of the region’s most popular landmarks. Thanks to the programme “Digital Stage” curated by The Cutting Room innovative digital artworks have been brought to Nottingham Playhouse, offering an alternative viewpoint to Nottingham Playhouse’s artistic programme.The deadline for applications is December 07, 2013.The event is open to video-art only. To take part in the selection, send your videos’ submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, ItalyThe number of works you can submit is free and unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.International ArtExpo is an art organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.
Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park
Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park
Curated under the theme 'Social Animals' by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, the artworks selected for this year’s Public sector will transform Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space. Public, a sector of Art Basel's Miami Beach show, features over 30 large-scale sculptures and installations by leading and emerging international artists, including Olaf Breuning, Sam Falls, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Richard Long, Santiago Roose, Oscar Tuazon, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. For the third straight year the sector is produced in partnership with the Bass Museum of Art. A selection of artworks will continue to be installed in Collins Park through March 2014. The Public sector’s opening night on Wednesday, December 4 will include a special program of performances, free of charge and open to the public.
The theme 'Social Animals' has its origins in Aristotle's observations about the nature of human beings. Set within the cityscape of Miami Beach, this year’s edition of Public seeks to turn a grouping of separate works by multiple artists into a temporary community of its own, with works in conversation and in dialog with each other – such as Sam Falls’ powder-coated aluminum installation with a master work by Charlotte Posenenske – as well as with the location – evident in Michelle Lopez’s towering site-specific structure.
Drawing on his experience of injecting public art within the urban landscape, Nicholas Baume’s selection works to activate the public park as a place for social interactions and as an extension of the diverse exchanges that take place in the environment of the art fair. In this context, Public presents Phil Wagner’s diptych of opposing chairs, large-scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero and Oscar Tuazon, and two urban structures built from concrete, wood, and metal mesh by Santiago Roose. Alicja Kwade’s large-scale steel sculpture reimagines the border lines between time zones as a global electrocardiograph.
The sector’s title likewise links to the hand-worked surfaces and textures of many of the work’s figurative and organic forms. The varied works of Huma Bhabha, Olaf Breuning, Aaron Curry, Tom Friedman, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, Tony Tasset and Pascale Marthine Tayou incorporate figurative elements, at times alluding to Modernist and ancient totems. The use of natural materials is seen in Carol Bove’s open-form sculpture in petrified wood and steel, Jeppe Hein’s series of 'rooms' shaped by water, and Richard Long’s 12-foot-diameter installation in Dartmoor Granite, while Ursula von Rydingsvard’s composition of cut, stacked and sculptured cedar beams transforms solid material into gestural form. Mungo Thomson’s audio recording of professional musicians imitating the sound of crickets is played on outdoor speakers.
Symbols of popular culture are reused and repositioned to engage with the audience, as in Scott Reeder’s three-dimensional installation of the words 'Real Fake' and Matias Faldbakken’s adaptation of the original Peterbilt 281 big rig truck which appeared in Steven Spielberg’s first feature film 'Duel' (1971). Maarten Vanden Eynde’s composition of oil peak sculptures in bronze is based on the production rates of individual oil wells and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells.
A selection of works from Public will remain installed in Collins Park for an extended run through March 2014 via tc: temporary contemporary. The city-wide temporary, public art program was initiated by the Bass Museum of Art in partnership with the City of Miami Beach in 2012. It seeks to activate the urban landscape with art and engage with residents, visitors and passers-by to encourage interactions with the city and its communities. tc: temporary contemporary is made possible through the support of The City of Miami Beach, ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network, Inc.
For Public Opening Night on Wednesday, Kate Gilmore has created 'Only One Like You', a new performance that builds on themes introduced in her 2011 Public Art Fund project. In this large-scale performance, lining both sides of the central axis through the park, performers, who will share a number of physical characteristics, will stand on individual pedestals, wielding sledgehammers, and pounding metal cubes, creating in the process a series of destroyed sculptures. Taking the basic elements of human presence and bodily movement as his raw materials, Ryan McNamara’s new performance 'Uncanny Liquidity' intends to tweak perceptions and provoke curiosity. Two performers are placed in Collins Park, dressed to blend into the crowd. Their subtle movements betray the fact that something is not quite right, prompting visitors to observe them more closely. As the night goes on, their difference from the rest of the crowd grows more acute. For 'Smoke Grid' Olaf Breuning will simultaneously set off smoke canisters to create a sea of colored smoke. The installation transforms its environment into a swirling painterly mass of color and movement, generating unique visual effects as the smoke and pigment erupt and disperse. A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created that evening. Four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets. Recordings of the performance will be played in Collins Park throughout the rest of the week. For the fourth performance of the evening, entitled 'Santa Confessional', David Colman installs a classic Catholic confessional within Collins Park for people to confess their sins and ask for absolution. Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open-air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday’s private practice of confessing in secret and today’s more performative and secular version of confession.
Public Opening Night, which is free and open to the public, takes place in Collins Park on Wednesday, December 4, from 8.30pm to 10pm. The Public sector is also free of charge and open to the public from December 4 to December 8.
Collins Park is located between 21st & 22nd Street, in close proximity of the exhibition halls within the Miami Beach Convention Center and adjacent to The Bass Museum of Art.
On Thursday, December 5, from 2pm to 3pm, Art Basel's Salon program will see Nicholas Baume in conversation with Kate Gilmore, Alicja Kwade and Mungo Thomson. The talk takes place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon.
List of 2013 Public artworks:
Huma Bhabha | 'God of Some Things', 2011 | Salon 94
Carole Bove | 'Flora’s Garden I', 2012 | David Zwirner
Olaf Breuning | 'Dreams/Dirt'; 'There is Absolutely Nothing to Find Up There'; 'I Don't Want to Go This Way', 2013 | Metro Pictures
Aaron Curry | 'Untitled', 2013 | David Kordansky Gallery
Mark di Suvero | 'Exemplar', 1979 | Paula Cooper Gallery
Matias Faldbakken | 'Untitled (Duel Truck)', 2013 | Simon Lee Gallery | Paula Cooper Gallery
Sam Falls | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Tom Friedman | 'Untitled (peeing figure)', 2012; 'Huddle', 2013 | Luhring Augustine | Stephen Friedman Gallery
Jeppe Hein | 'Appearing Rooms', 2004 | 303 Gallery | Johann König | Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Thomas Houseago | 'Striding Figure (Rome I)', 2013; 'Studio Seat I', 2011; 'Studio Seat II', 2012; 'Yet to be Titled (Chaise)', 2012 | Gagosian Gallery
Alicja Kwade | 'Pulse of Time', 2013 | Johann König | kamel mennour
Richard Long | 'Higher White Tor Circle', 1996 | Sperone Westwater
Michelle Lopez | 'Blue Angel II', 2013 | Simon Preston Gallery
Matthew Monahan | 'A Lifer', 2013 | Anton Kern Gallery
Charlotte Posenenske | 'Vierkantrohre Serie D', 1967 – 2013 | Mehdi Chouakri | Peter Freeman
Scott Reeder | 'Real Fake', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin
Santiago Roose | 'Theoretically Stable System', 2013 | 80M2 Livia Benavides
Tony Tasset | 'Bear', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin
Pascale Marthine Tayou | 'Tug of War', 2007 – 2010 | Galleria Continua
Mungo Thomson | 'Cricket Solo for Clarinet', 'Cricket Solo for Violin', 'Cricket Solo for Flute', 'Cricket Solo for Percussion', 2013 | galerie frank elbaz
Oscar Tuazon | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Maarten Vanden Eynde | 'Oil Peaks', 2010 – 2013 | Meessen De Clercq
Ursula von Rydingsvard | 'Lub Też', 2013 | Galerie Lelong
Phil Wagner | 'Let Us Rejoice', 2013 | Untitled
List of performances taking place during Public Opening Night:
Olaf Breuning l 'Smoke Grid', 2013
David Colman l 'Santa Confessional', 2013
Kate Gilmore l 'Only One Like You', 2013
Ryan McNamara | 'Uncanny Liquidity', 2013
Mungo Thomson l 'Crickets Solo for Clarinet'; 'Violin'; 'Flute'; 'Percussion', 2013
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More information on the sector is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/public.
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Important Dates
Opening Day of Art Basel in Miami Beach (by invitation only):
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013
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Monday, November 18, 2013
The Third Line at Abu Dhabi Art
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DREAMS LIVED/DREAMS SHATTERED: MLK, JFK 50 YEARS LATER The Work of FIT Graduate Illustration Program Students and Faculty The Museum at FIT
DREAMS LIVED/DREAMS SHATTERED: MLK, JFK 50 YEARS LATER
The Work of FIT Graduate Illustration Program Students and Faculty
The Museum at FIT
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
OPENING RECEPTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 6:00-8:00 PM
On View Through December 7
Many of the students of the FIT graduate program in Illustration whose art hangs in The Museum at FIT in honor of the 50th anniversary of the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., do not remember those seminal events from personal experience, but one wouldn’t know it from looking at their work. The exhibition, Dreams Lived/Dreams Shattered: MLK, JFK 50 Years Later, on view throughDecember 7, includes the illustrations of 24 students in FIT’s Masters of Fine Arts program in Illustration and five faculty members, along with powerful personal statements about the pieces.
The works range in media from scratchboard and canvas to pen and ink, clay sculpture, and digital print.
“I like bringing the culture of our times to our work,” said Melanie Reim, chair and associate professor, Master of Fine Art program in Illustration. “It’s important to remember that visual interpretations are potent, powerful ways of assigning a feeling to the written word, and in today’s world the illustrator is more powerful than ever with the combination of media they have at their disposal.”
In order to deepen the students’ understanding of these two seminal events in America’s history, Daniel Levinson Wilk, associate professor, American History, provided background, and Matthew Petrunia, associate professor, English and Speech, followed with the key aspects of great speeches. The students were then asked to interpret the events of half a century ago in any way they chose.
A number of the students expanded on Kennedy’s and King’s lives – and their untimely deaths – to examine broader social issues. In Put Them Where We Can’t See Them, Donna Choi considers the fact that the United States makes up five percent of the world’s population, yet comprises twenty-five percent of its incarcerated population. Within this population, she states, African-Americans are disproportionately targeted and punished for nonviolent drug offenses.
Minjung Kim was inspired by the legacy of President Kennedy’s passing of the Civil Rights Act, choosing to express herself artistically with a medical illustration.
Nicholas Block writes that his piece has to do with the nature of dreams, which have the potential to inspire and cause action. “Martin Luther King used his ‘dream’ as the basis for a movement toward his vision of a better world.”
Bruno Nadalin used the metaphor of Hurricane Katrina and the rooftops of New Orleans to represent the “lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” that Dr. King spoke of in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
The Fashion Institute of Technology, a college of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for nearly 70 years. With a curriculum that provides a singular blend of hands-on, practical experience, classroom study, and a firm grounding in the liberal arts, FIT offers a wide range of outstanding programs that are affordable and relevant to today’s rapidly changing industries. The college offers more than 45 majors and grants AAS, BFA, BS, MA, MFA, and MPS degrees, preparing students for professional success and leadership in the global marketplace. Visit fitnyc.edu.
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Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulating Kevin Beasley for his inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial Mar 7 - May 25, 2014
Untitled (Wrong), 2013 (detail)30 x 25 x 20"
resin, body pillows, t-shirt, hooded sweatshirt
Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulatingKevin Beasley
for his inclusion in the
Curated by Stuart Comer currently Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, Anthony Elms, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Michelle Grabner, Professor and Chair of the Painting Institute, Chicago>> http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial
>> "The 2014 Whitney Biennial is Taking Shape", Carol Vogel, New York Times, November 14, 2013
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OHAnd in My Dream I Was Rolling on the FloorResidency April 6-13 2014 | Performance April 12 2014The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MNSound HorizonPerformance in-conjunction with Jim Hodges: Give More Than You TakeMay 8 2014The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NYArtist-in-Residence 2013-2014Exhibition July 2014
Untitled (Helmet), 2013foam, spray paint, resin, t-shirt
12 x 14 x 20"
private collection
Kevin Beasley was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1985. He holds an MFA from Yale University (2012) and received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (2007). He has exhibited nationally with The Butcher's Daughter (Detroit, MI) in group shows in Los Angeles, throughout Michigan, and New York.Beasley's recent exhibitions include "Fore" at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13), "Some Sweet Day" at the Museum of Modern Art (2012) and "An All Day Event, The End" at Danspace (2012).Beasley has recently completed a fellowship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY and he will be the artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem for 2013-2014.He currently lives and works in New York City.||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||For details related to art, performance, or upcoming events, please email info@thebutchersdaughtergallery.com||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||T 248 890 6536 || info@thebutchersdaughtergallery.com#fineartmagazine
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